Tory MP Kit Malthouse encourages his colleagues to read Dignity in Dying’s new report – The True Cost: How the UK outsources death to Dignitas – launched today, and understand what we, as a society, are turning a blind eye to. 

Dr Peter Simpson, Medicines Discovery Catapult’s Chief Scientific Officer, has been elected to the Board of Directors at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), the world’s pre-eminent community of life sciences professionals working to advance research through the use of technology.  

BANT welcomes Royal Society for Public Health recognition of practitioners registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council.

On this World Pneumonia Day a countdown begins, says Save the Children. 

British Safety Council releases free learning tools and calls upon businesses to run basic health and safety workshops for their local communities.

It’s time we recognised that striving to improve mental health is just as natural as striving to improve our physical wellbeing, writes Armed Forces Minister Tobias Ellwood 

Stevens certainly knows how to target the Government’s weaknesses, focussing on Brexit, public sector pay and NHS funding, says Dods Political Consultant Bruce Reilly.

The British Safety Council recently launched their new manifesto: Combatting risk in the digital age, at an event in the House of Commons.

The pledge by Vote Leave to provide £350m a week for the NHS ahead of the Brexit referendum should be honoured, the head of England’s NHS is expected to say.

British Safety Council launches its new manifesto at a parliamentary reception.

Almost 50% of disabled people report feeling uncomfortable with sharing information about their impairment or condition in the workplace, finds Scope.

There will be a ‘full statutory inquiry’ into the contaminated blood scandal after campaigners successfully blocked Department of Health involvement.

Today, the British Safety Council will be holding a reception in Parliament to launch its new Manifesto, which will set the tone for the future of the organisation. In 1982, Andy Slaughter worked as press officer for the British Safety Council under its charismatic and often controversial founder James Tye, when the charity was constantly in the headlines with good or bad news. 

A proposal for trained B&B owners to look after discharged patients should be considered, a health minister said this morning - just days after a similar idea sparked outrage.

Labour has slammed the Government after it emerged the NHS has fallen further away from meeting a flu jab ambition for pensioners.

The head of the Civil Service Jeremy Heywood has revealed he was diagnosed with cancer in June.

Jeremy Corbyn is among more than 100 MPs calling on the Government to introduce “buffer zones” to protect women from abusive protestors outside abortion clinics.

The NHS must urgently heed warnings of threats to its computer systems or face an even larger cyberattack than the ‘WannaCry’ breach in May, the Government’s spending watchdog has warned.

Hospital staff will be required to ask patients for proof of identity under legislation which comes into force on Monday.

MPs in the State of Victoria in Australia have today (Wednesday 18th October 2017) voted in support of a change in the law that would allow terminally ill adults the option of an assisted death in their final year of life. 

Mark Atkinson, Chief Executive at disability charity Scope, has responded to the Government's decision to stop charges for the Universal Credit phone line. 

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth calls for a 21st Century public health service in which no child is left behind. 

Newborn babies are missing out on vital checks because of a fall in the number of health visitors, according to Labour.